HARRISBURG – Last week, the Pennsylvania Department of General Services (DGS) hosted its inaugural Small Business Empowerment Summit, a two-day conference aimed at connecting small, small diverse, and veteran-owned businesses with state contracting opportunities in the Commonwealth. The summit gave small businesses in Pennsylvania a better understanding of Commonwealth procurement opportunities, available resources to capital, and how the Shapiro-Davis Administration is working to make state contracting easier for them.
This is the latest step the Administration and DGS are taking to support small and small diverse businesses – building on the Executive Order signed by Governor Shapiro to improve state procurement practices. DGS has also reduced the time it takes to certify a small business in the Commonwealth by 33% and implemented a prompt pay policy to ensure small diverse business and veteran-owned business subcontractors receive faster payment for goods and services provided to the Commonwealth under state contracts.